Designing Human Resource Management Systems provides a framework for
designing and implementing Human Resource Management systems in various
kinds of organizations, even those with limited resources. It is
intended for leaders, decision makers, senior managers, HR
practitioners, and consultants wishing to innovate, structure, and
implement HRM systems in organizations irrespective of their class,
nature, category, or size.

The coverage of concepts and relevant theories pertaining to each
system and sub-system job analysis, human resource planning, recruitment
and selection, performance management, training and development,
360-degree feedback, mentoring and executive coaching, and reward
management is comprehensive, but presented in brief. The guidelines
present a logical, simple, and easy-to-adopt approach. The practical
guidelines also have examples related to what can possibly go wrong and
therefore what to guard against. The book has relevant tools,
questionnaires, forms, policies, and other aspects of utility for
designing each HRM sub-system.

About the Author
Jayant Mukherjee is an alumnus of the Indian Institute of
Management, Ahmedabad (IIMA), India, and of the Institute of Technology,
Banaras Hindu University (BHU), India. He did his Fellow Programme in
Management from IIMA and Bachelor of Technology from IT-BHU. He has over
18 years of rich and varied experience in consultancy, content
development, training, teaching, organization development, and research.

He has taught at various leading management institutes in India
including three years as a regular faculty member at XLRI School of
Business and Human Resources, Jamshedpur, India. He has consulted a wide
gamut of organizations spanning several sectors and industries
including steel, petrochemicals, textile, hospitality, IT, and academic
institutions. He is currently a management consultant and advisor to
various organizations.

His published work includes articles, book reviews, and case studies.
He has authored a chapter titled ‘Aligning and Redesigning Human
Resource Management Systems to meet Internationalization Needs’
published in the book Aligning Human Resource Processes: Challenges of
Development (edited by Dharni P. Sinha et al., 1996).

Jayant is passionate about the welfare of birds and animals. He is fond of painting, photography, and literature.